Kevin Eldon gets own BBC Two series

BBC Two has today confirmed the commission of a brand new comedy series starring acclaimed comic Kevin Eldon.

It's Kevin - a 6x 30 minute series, currently pencilled for broadcast in 2013 - will mix character comedy with special guests, sketches and songs. It will be filmed both on location and in studio.

Producers say of the series: "It's sketches, it's songs, it's characters, it's guests, it's a man who's old enough to know better mucking about, with help from a number of his comedy friends.

"What other show on TV would bring you a song and dance number, The Incredible Moose Human, The Great Spagboletti, A Fictional Northern Man, John Lennon's Head, The Perspective Twins, some performance poetry, Wendy Wilson's White Coat Window On The World Of World Wide Wonders, a sketch with a doctor in it and Hitler, and still not be halfway through the first episode?